Minister of State at the Presidency, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, says IMANI rsquo;s 47% rating of the NDC government rsquo;s performance is only a reflection of their relationship with the government and not a true assessment of the performance of the ...

Migration-causing vacuum in entrepreneurship continues to gnaw at the vitals of the state’s economy Industrial reverses that West Bengal suffered in the 1960s due to a lethal combination of recession and militant trade unionism led to migration of entrepreneurial talent to other states, particularly in the west where opportunities beckoned. Like Basant Kumar Birla nudging his only son, Aditya Vikram Birla, to shift to what was then Bombay. Scions of more moderate business houses with long ...

Several state governments have proposed they could enact their own land laws consistent with the amendments proposed by the Centre in the land acquisition Bill, 2015, rather than waiting indefinitely for a consensus. Ten big states, most of those ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its alliance partners, on Wednesday sought to unshackle themselves from the logjam over amendments to the contentious land acquisition Bill, 2013, by proposing to bring their own laws for boosting ...

Congress preparing a dissent note on the issue The government appears ready to accept the demand for full compensation to states for a period of five years after introduction of the proposed national goods and services tax (GST). By acceding to this view among the Rajya Sabha panel scrutinising the constitutional amendment Bill for GST, the government would be closer to getting regional political parties on board for the major tax change. The Congress party, however, continues to oppose the ...

Sikhs residing in the United States being victims of mistaken identity and human trafficking were some of the main issues raised between the delegation of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee during a 45- minutes meeting with the Department of State on July 14 in Washington, DC. The 8-member team headed by Manjit Singh GK, president, DSGMC, met Eileen O’ Connor, deputy assistant secretary, the department of state at WashingtonDC and appraised her about various achievements ...

Jaipur: State Congress chief Sachin Pilot yesterday alleged that both central and state governments were helping former commissioner of IPL Lalit Modi. “The dual policy of BJP was exposed, and their ‘kathani and karni’s’ difference was ...

New Delhi: Deprecating Prime Minister Narendera Modi’s attacks abroad on previous governments, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today saw it as a part of “that whole thing of about me, myself and I alone”.Abdullah, also ...

Chennai: Congress and PMK today welcomed the Karnataka government’s decision to appeal against acquittal of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in a wealth case. While TNCC President E V K S Elangovan patted his party-run government in that state ...